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Summary: Post S2. Mostly Mer/Der with the other conventional couples. Meredith and Derek have a lot to sort through as do the other characters. Their situations are not made easier by certain complications that arise. (Addie friendly).

A/N Hey guys! Thanks so much for continuing onto chapter two! I hope you are enjoying so far, I'm not sure where I'm going with it yet- I have a general idea but the ideas are still a little blurry so hang in there with me :-). Thanks for the support. Chapter three will be up soon.


"Dr. Grey, Dr. Karev, Dr. O'Malley so nice of you to show up., and where the hell is Stevens? " Dr. Bailey asked of the three inters as the entered the locker room. Heading towards her locker Meredith opened it up and began to change.

"How's Izzie?" Christina asked in a hushed whisper as Bailey addressed the other inters.

"Dealing. You know how she is. She was up this morning when we were- cleaning!" Meredith whispered back.

"Yang. Grey. Is there something we should all know?" Bailey asked gesturing to herself and the rest of the locker room.

"Ah no Dr. Bailey." Christina answered. Bailey eyed the two and continued on.

"George I need you to do labs, and then head down to the pit, someone needs to pick up for Stevens while she is gone. Actually no, do the pit and then labs. Karev, Burke needs someone in OR1- bypass. Yang, Grey, you can come with me." Alex and George ran off into opposite directions and the two girls followed Bailey out into the nurse's station.

"Can you two tell me why Stevens isn't here?" She questioned

"She quit…" Meredith started to answer

"Like hell she quit. That girl needs to be here tomorrow morning or the true Nazi will come out. You do not want me knocking on her door tomorrow you understand?" She pointed at each intern. They nodded.

"Grey take these charts and do post-op notes. Yang stay with me." Bailey handed several charts to Meredith and headed down the hall Christina following close behind.


"This day sucks." George said dropping his tray down onto the table.

"Just think how Izzie feels." Meredith said.

"I am!" George yelled and caught himself lowering his voice.

"I am thinking about Izzie."

"I know… I'm sorry. I'm out of sorts."

"Aren't we all?" Christina sat down across from George.

Meredith shrugged as her pager went off. She looked down and sighed.

George raised his eyebrows in question. Meredith looked down confused.

"It's the front desk. I never get paged down there." Grabbing her tray of half eaten food she dumped it into the trash and walked off.

Meredith walked into the lobby. Just in time to see the one person she had never expected to see.

"What are you doing here? Better yet why are you paging me?" She asked in utter shock.


Mark Sloan smiled at Meredith.

"Nice to see you Dr. Grey. How are you?"

"No. No. No. Seriously? I can't even believe this. Look you have problems and I understand that because God knows I do to but DO NOT involve me in them, I have too much going on and too much to deal with without you trying to rope me into your sick twisted issues."

"I'm doing great thanks for asking." Mark's smile broadened. Meredith shook her head and turned away to head up the stairs.

Mark followed her up. Reaching her he stayed in stride with her as she headed for the elevator.

"It's interesting really." Sloan started. "We don't really even know each other, yet for some strange reason you hate me."

"I don't hate you. You are just the last person that needs to be here." Meredith responded.

"Trouble in paradise?" Mark smirked.

"This is Seattle- far from Paradise." Meredith snapped picking up her pace reaching for the elevator button and pressing it. As she pushed it the doors opened to reveal Derek.

"Mere… Dr. Sloan?" Derek lost his usual cool demeanor. "What are you…"

"Doing here?"

Meredith turned to see Addison- mouth agape holding on loosely to a cup of coffee.

"If I sold my life story to some soap opera, I could make millions."